TECHNOLOGY

REALTOR.com's Website of Homes for Sale

          Contains essentially all homes on MLS and searchable by whatever criteria you'd like.

Louisiana Commercial Properties Database

          A state-wide MLS of commercial properties. 

Online Statewide Property Tax Information

        Invaluable resource for obtaining property tax information (which indirectly gives you the last sales price in many instances) on a given property.  It's searchable by property address or even by subdivision.  You'll see an "assessed value" for land and a separate one for improvements.  To "back into" the purchase price (or at least the Assessor's most recent estimate of the property's value), merely multiply each value by 10 if it's residential, or by 6.67 if it's commercial.  For example, if a residential property's assessed value is "Land, $3,300, Improvements, $22,500," then the last sale (or most recent estimate by the Assessor of the property's value) was (is)  $258,000 [($3,300 + $22,500) x 10].

Another critical component which CANNOT be overlooked in evaluating prospective purchases is the FSBO (For Sale By Owner) market.  That aspect deserves a separate webpage, so:

CLICK HERE to see a compilation of some of the most popular FSBO websites.